"We know what we can do. We know how we can expose teams," Brodeur said after the 3-1 win in Game 5 Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center. "Our big weapon is the coaching staff. They prepare us, they make changes to our system better than a lot of coaches I had in the past. We're well-prepared to do the things we need to do to be successful.

"Whoever we're going to face in the conference finals I'm sure the coaching staff is going to prepare us as well as they did against the two teams so far."

Those things were obvious against the Flyers.

"The main key is discipline," Patrik Elias said.

Brodeur agreed.

“Stay disciplined. You could talk about scoring goals, forechecking them and playing well and all that,” Brodeur said, “but I think what was tough on them was us not retaliating to any of the stuff they were doing and all the stuff they were saying every single game. Guys just turned away and didn’t respond to anybody.
“They were able to get Pittsburgh all wrapped up in that stuff. It must’ve gotten tough on them a little bit to just talk to themselves all day long.”

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TV tried to get Ilya Kovalchuk to reveal what the "magic" was that allowed him to come back from a herniated disc in his back after missing just one game.

"We're still in it so it's still a secret," Kovalchuk said with a smile.